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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Origami Picture-Game

There's been a meme going around Facebook (I don't know who started it) where someone tags you to post a picture of a folded model, one per day for 3 consecutive days; and then to tag and invite someone else to participate.

I hate memes. I ignored the ice bucket challenge. I do not do email forwards to 10 friends, even if I risk bad luck.

When Andrew Hans tagged me, I didn't want to be rude but thought to ignore and pretend like I did not notice. But a few days later, after talking to another friend, I decided to participate in good humor. The following, from first to last, is what I posted:

I had been invited by Andrew Hans
to participate in an origami-picture game. I should post one (1)
origami figure each day for three (3) consecutive days. It can be my own
design or someone else's. At first I was going to just ignore and pretend I didn't notice the tag, as I'm not into these internet memes. But David Donahue said I would have 7 years bad luck if I did not participate and play along. 7 years is a long time.

So, just a moment ago I folded my first cootie catcher
since probably the 4th grade. I did not know how to fold one and just
guessed, having heard it starts as a blintz. It took me probably all of
30 seconds to fold and figure out. I was done before I knew it.

I folded it by recycling an 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" square of astrobright paper.

The cootie catcher is also known as the fortune teller and salt cellar.

I remember years ago at SMGC, one of my gymnasts making one and then
had me pick colors and numbers. After several times of this, I realized
she had written only all bad fortunes. frown emoticon Creator unknown (traditional). From wikipedia:

"This shape was introduced to the English-speaking world under the name
salt cellar in the 1928 origami book Fun with Paper Folding by Murray
and Rigney (Fleming H. Revell company, 1928, p.10). The use of paper
fortune tellers in England has been recorded since the 1950s.[8]
Although the phrase "cootie catcher" has been used with other meanings
in the U.S. for much longer,[9] the use of paper cootie catchers in the
U.S. dates back at least to the 1960s."

To discontinue the game, I invite Won Park who is not on FB to publish
(1) origami figure each day for three (3) consecutive days and in turn
invite one friend a day to do the same. You must tag me and the friend
you choose each day.

But had trouble finding reference points to start off. Not only is the
crease pattern difficult to follow; but I can only imagine how long it
would take for me to collapse it correctly.

So I folded an
origami puppy face instead. One 6" x 6" square sheet of commercial
kami. No cuts. No glue. I did "cheat" and use sticker eyes to enhance
the perception that it is a conceptual face of a canine that I folded
and not a Cylon Raider, robed monk, or something else left open to the
imagination.

To discontinue the game, I invite Won Park who is
not on FB to publish (1) origami figure each day for three (3)
consecutive days and in turn invite one friend a day to do the same. He
must tag me and the friend of his choice each day.

I had been invited by Andrew Hans
to participate in an origami-picture game. I should post one (1)
origami figure each day for three (3) consecutive days. It can be my own
design or someone else's. This is day 3. With this model, I fulfill my obligation.

I decided to go for the minimalist approach and folded an origami tent.
One sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" copy paper with no cuts and no glue. One
pureland fold later and "wallah!" Origami tent. Designer is unknown;
however, it has been independently
discovered multiple times, often unintentionally, throughout origami
history by just about anyone and everyone who has ever picked up a sheet
of paper and had to fold it in half.

To discontinue the game, I invite Won Park who is not on FB to publish
(1) origami figure each day for three (3) consecutive days and in turn
invite one friend a day to do the same. He must tag me and the friend of
his choice each day.